Motivational Quotes

Truth

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter